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This remarkable photograph shows what happened 1,000 feet in the air over the State Fair grounds Tuesday afternoon when George Mayland leaped with a parachute from the aeroplane guided by Ruth Law and glided to earth.
The picture shows Maynard suspended from the parachute, which is just beginning to open.  He dropped some distance like a plummet before the parachute's folds expanded enough to check his speed and permit him to glide to earth without injury.
When the photograph was taken Maynard was falling too rapidly for the eye to follow him and it was necessary for the camera to catch the picture in one fifteen hundredth of a second.
The aeroplane, with the intrepid Miss Law guiding it, has sped on, leaving Maynard in midair, 1,000 feet above the earth, with only the fragile folds of the parachute to keep him from dashing to death.
The parachute does not show the smooth umbrella shape which is generally ascribed to parachutes because, when this picture was taken, it was still a shapeless mass beginning to unfold upon the air.
The spots above the parachute are the papers with which it was filled and which flutter out to give a more spectacular effect to the leap.


THE SUNDAY HERALD
"LOUISVILLE DAY" DRAWS HOST TO FAIR
Eastern Kentucky Divides Titular Honors With The Metropolis and Vies In Boosting Exhibition.
RUTH LAW DARES DEATH IN DAMAGED AEROPLANE
She Makes Perilous Flight Against Wises of Husband.

Ruth Law's Flight.
The breaking of a wire on the wing of her biplane did not deter Ruth Law yesterday afternoon from taking George Mayland up with her and dropping him in front of the grandstand in a spectacular leap from the machine with his parachute.  Instead, she pressed into service a wire found along the roadside, hastily spliced the broken part and continued her flight.  The "slight" accident happened when she landed on Western parkway to pick up Mayland.
Miss Law rose for her second flight at the State Fair at exactly 4:41 o'clock. Circling from the northern end of  race enclosure she sped toward the main entrance of the fair. Here she turned and volplaned to the ground on Western parkway near Riverview Park, where Mayland was waiting with his parachute. As she alighted a wire on her machine snapped. Meanwhile the 10,000 speceators waited breathlessly for her return.  After a twenty-minutes wait the purr of her engine could be heard. Soon she was seen coming high in the air with Mayland strapped beside her.

Mayland's Drop.
Soaring far above the grandstand she gracefully volplaned down a few hundred feet, where Maylad could be seen climbing from his seat beside her. Directly in front of the grandstand, about 1,000 feet high, he leaped, dropping about a hundred feet before his parachute opened. As he dropped from the bottom of the machine he sped through the air at a sizzling rate. When within a few hundred feet from earth his parachute opened and he floated o the earth.  He had completed his twenty-fifth leap without a mishap.
The flight of Miss Law and the drop of Mayland were again the sensation of the day. On all sides praise could be heard for the plucky little flyer, and her partner, who looks death in the face each time he performs the leap.

How Leap Was Made.
To drop from the aeroplane Mayland is compelled to climb down between the wires and the engine while the biplane is traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour. On the bottom of te plane is fastened a large ring with the parachute fastened to it.  As he nears the spot selected to drop, Mayland can be seen hanging suspended from the bottom of the biplane for a second before he "breaks away" from the machine. At the right moment he cuts the wire with his left hand and has then started on another death-defying leap toward mother earth.
Maylad is a quiet chap, about twenty-five years old. He is small of statue and weighs about 115 pounds.
Following his drop yesterday afternoon Mayland immediately set to work assisting in replacing the aeroplane in the shed.
Mayland will make his sensational drop next Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The fair management has been warmly commended in securing the pair as a leading attraction.
The thrilling feature of the fair yesterday, the aeroplane exhibition by Miss Ruth Law and George Mayland's parachute jump from her machine, was executed at the risk of the lives of both performers and against the approval of Charles Oliver, Miss Law's husband.
When the time came for Miss Law and Mayland to trust their lives to small pieces of canvas and they did not ascend, the crowd had the idea that the entertainrs were "loafing." But they were not loafing. They were arguing about Mayland's chance to open his parachute in the high wind.
Willing To Try.
Oliver said it couldn't be done. Miss Law wasn't at all confident. Mayland said he couldn't tell until he tried - and he was willing to try.
When Miss Law ascended alone and flew to the Western Parkway to pick Mayland up, the crowd became more impatient when she was lost to view and did not return as the minutes dragged and supper time came closer and closer.
Oliver, instead of becoming impatient, became uneasy. He nervously paced, the aviation filed until he could stand it no longer. Then he ran to the Western Parkway.
"She probably has met an accident," he explained to an official of the fiar, as he hurried thru the grounds.
Mr. Oliver Worried.
Away up the Parkway, he sighted the aeroplane. There was a crowd around it. Miss Law then saw her husband. She and Mayland jumped into the machine and ascended before Oliver could discover the reason for the delay.
"What was the matter?" he asked a bystander.
"One of the stay-wires broke. They spliced it with an old, rusty wire Miss Law found over there in the grass," he answered.
Oliver hurried back to the aviation field, watching his wife anxiously as she thrilled the crowds with an aeroplane patched with a rusy wire, just like a binder would be repaired.
"Why didn't you give a chance to see what was wrong before you went up, Ruth-" he asked, not knowing whether to be overjoyed or angry.
"If I had, Charlie, there wouldn't have been any flight," she replied.
Dogs "Speak German."
Following the descent of Miss Law and Mayland, the crowd remained in the racetrack grandstand to witness a filed exhibition of three German police dogs, which are owned by Thomas Fortune Ryan. The dogs are entered in the dog show.
They are being shown in Louisville by Mr. C. Halsted Yates and George Benz, of Germany, who trained the animals. Mr. Yates manages Mr. Ryan's farm. Mr. Benz made a reputation as a trainer of police dogs during his service in the German military service.
The dogs "speak German." At least, they do not understand any other language. They are trained to seize a prisoner, attack

[[photograph]]Ruth Law seated on a stool with legs crossed[[/photograph]]

RUTH LAW QUEEN OF THE AIR
THE ONLY SENSATIONAL LADY AVIAOR DOING THE "SPIRALDIVE," "DIP OF DEATH," "STEEP BANKING" AND MANY OTHER THRILLERS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE LOOP.

RUTH LAW IN A CLASS BY HERSELF
[[photograph]]Ruth Law[[/photograph]]

FLYING AT BROCKTON, MASS.
[[photograph]]Airplane in flight[[/photograph]]

1915 FEATURE ATTRACTION
Parachute jump from aeroplane driven by RUTH LAW, who guarantees that jumper will land in center field before your grand stand.
For descriptive matter, bookings and terms write or wire
CHARLES OLIVER, MANAGE,
Care The Billboard,
CRILLY BLDG., - CHICAGO, ILL.

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know a drop of 2,000 feet would be just as fatal as one of 20,000. A low flight is more dangerous than a high one, because in case of accident to the motor I would not have time to spiral or volplane to safety."
The dips along the racetrack, over the staring crowds and down from the grandstand produced as great thrills yesterday as did Lincoln Beachey's looping the loop last year. Commissioner of Agriculture John W. Newman, Secretary J.L. De and other State Fair officials joined with the thousands of spectators in pronouncing the flight the most thrilling ever seen in Louisville.
View From Grand Stand.
Miss Law rose from the center of the racetrack inclosure at 4:18:10 o'clock and flew southward half a mile from the fairgrounds, turning westward and then northward and passing over the crowds. When she reached Greenwood avenue she turned eastward, then southward and rose 1,500 feet. She turned to the west and went northward again over the grandstand, then eastward, southward and upward to a height of 2,500 feet.
From this height she spiraled to within 500 feet of the ground. Rising again and sailing southward and upward, she dropped 1,000 feet toward the racetrack immediately in front of the grandstand. Sailing northward and upward again, she spiraled once more, and when 600 feet above ground started around the racetrack. She passed directly in front of the grandstand, dipping to within six feet of the ground three times within less than two furlongs. At the south end of the track she turned and flew northward, passing west of and on a level with the grandstand. While directly west of the grandstand she veered sharply, rose and flew  over it within six feet of the roof, dipped down over the crowd in front and rose again to clear the wires of the racing inclosure.
Flight of Eccentricities.
She then flew around the racetrack, making two dips, turning and passing over the grandstand; made a dip in the inclosure and circled a tree near the northeast end of the racetrack; turned ad sailed close over the tree. Then she darted directly westward across the field toward the grandstands, making two low dips; to the south and west and back northward over the grandstand and around the track, making a dip under the finishing wire. She turned and went northward, turned again and landed in the center of the racing inclosure at thirty-one minutes and thirty seconds after 4 o'clock.
Miss Law will make one flight each afternoon at 4 o'clock during the State Fair. George Mayland will jump from her biplane in a parachute from a height of 1,500 or 2,000 feet this afternoon and Thursday ad Saturday afternoons. He weighs 115 pounds and his parachute fifteen pounds. He will gauge his drop so as to land in the center of the racing inclosure in full view of the spectators. A leap in a parachute from an airship is more hazardous than a leap from a balloon, he says, because the airship throws the aeronaut at sharp angles, and because the parachute is so light that it frequently falls 500 to 800 feet before it fills with air.
Woman, 25, Married.
Miss Law comes from New York and in private life is Mrs. Charles Oliver. She is 25 years old, or, as she said yesterday, "old enough to know better." She is a sister of Rodman Law, who jumps from balloons and aeroplanes and does other stunts for pictures and pay, and once let himself be shot out of a cannon - "but only once." He made the parachute jump with his sister regularly until he attained a weight of 180 pounds, and then he had to quit.
Miss Law's biplane measures forty feet from wing tip to wing tip, almost twice as great a width as the Curtiss biplane, used by Lincoln Beachey in Louisville last year, which had a wing spread of twenty-one feet. It is an extremely heavy machine, built especially for carrying weight, and is of the style of biplane used by the warring European nations. Her husband inspects it before each flight and makes sure it is in good condition before the start.

[[photograph]]Ruth Law standing beside a biplane[[/photograph]]

DECEMBER 17, 1915.
"LOOPING-THE-LOOP" BECOMES A REALITY
RUTH LAW STILL CAUSING PENINSULA PEOPLE TO CATCH BREATH BY EXECUTING MIDAIR STUNTS.
"Goodness gracious! She's looping the loop!" were the general exclamations heard on all the streets in Daytona Beach and Seabreeze yesterday afternoon.
Instead of waiting until later in the season to try turning somersaults in the skies, Ruth Law thought she was well enough acquainted with her fine new machine to perform a few turn-overs yesterday afternoon. Even her husband and manager, Chas. Oliver, was unaware that she would try such a deed quite as soon as yesterday and was very much startled to see the machine suddenly turn completely over about 2,500 feet above the ground.